Aidan Williams wrote:
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To extend the analogy again in the opposite direction: now that
software is available to tunnel random traffic over HTTP, we can
expect firewall filtering to get harder, and become less effective.
Why would this not happen for email lists too?
Most spammers strike me as opportunistic and not overly interested
in special-case-handling a couple of subscribe-to-send lists,
given the hundreds and thousands of target addresses they
purchased on a CDROM. Yes, they could get around pre-subscribe
schemes. Yet it seems likely most wouldn't bother, and would
instead just end up ignoring us. Which would be nice.
cheers,
gja